Bagé-Aceguá Highway (BR 153), km 176: Roadian - Capitanian, Brazil

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Amphibia - Temnospondyli - Archegosauridae
1 individual
UFRGS PV- 0317-P, lower jaw
see common names

Geography
Country:Brazil State/province:Rio Grande do Sul
Coordinates: 30.3° South, 54.3° West (view map)
Paleocoordinates:41.7° South, 27.0° West (Wright 2013)
Basis of coordinate:based on nearby landmark
Geographic resolution:small collection
Time
Period: Permian Epoch: Guadalupian
Stage: Roadian - Capitanian 10 m.y. bin: Permian 3 - Permian 4
Key time interval: Roadian - Capitanian
Age range of interval: 274.4 - 259.51 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Geological group:Passa Dois Formation:Rio do Rasto Member:Morro Pelado
Stratigraphic resolution:bed
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: "siliciclastic"
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body
Size of fossils:macrofossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:field collection
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Collection method comments: UFRGS: Vertebrate Paleontology Collection (PV) of the Departamento de Paleontologia e Estratigrafia, Instituto de Geociências, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Metadata
Database number:176058
Authorizer:J. Zijlstra, R. Butler Enterer:J. Zijlstra, R. Butler
Modifier:R. Butler Research group:vertebrate
Created:2016-01-23 19:01:44 Last modified:2025-02-22 15:12:02
Access level:database members Released:2017-01-23 19:01:44
Creative Commons license:CC0
Reference information

Primary reference:

62541. E. V. Dias and M. C. Barberena. 2001. A temnospondyl amphibian from the Rio do Rasto Formation, Upper Permian of Southern Brazil. Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências 73:136-143 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]

Secondary references:

57823 A. G. Martinelli, H. Francischini, P. C. Dentzien-Dias, M. Soares, and C. L. Schultz. 2017. The oldest archosauromorph from South America: postcranial remains from the Guadalupian (mid-Permian) Rio do Rasto Formation (Paraná Basin), southern Brazil. Historical Biology 29(1):76-84 [R. Butler/R. Butler/R. Butler]